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For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly f...

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A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help.

But first of all he is a woodsman, and you aren't a woodsman unless you have such a feeling for topo...

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It is very important to a lot of people to make unmistakably clear to themselves and to the universe...

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Young Men and Fire

In this story of the outside world and the inside world with a fire between, the outside world of li...

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Young Men and Fire

Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretchi...

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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

When I looked, I knew I might never again see so much of the earth so beautiful, the beautiful being...

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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature—not for long, of course, but ...

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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's...

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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

If you push me far enough, all I really know is that he was a fine fisherman.""You know more than th...

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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did ...

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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

You can love completely without complete understanding.

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask...

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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

I tried to find something I already knew about life that might help me reach out and touch my brothe...

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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

At sunrise, everything is luminous but not clear

A River Runs Through It

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know w...

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... you can love completely without complete understanding.""That I have known and preached." my fat...

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Norman Maclean

Author

Born: 1902-12-23

Died: 1990-08-02

Norman Fitzroy Maclean (December 23, 1902 – August 2, 1990) was an American author and scholar noted for his books A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (1976) and Young Men and Fire (1992).More